Failure Quotes · Page 356

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

— Thomas Carlyle

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

— Robert Cecil Martin

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

— Samael Aun Weor

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

— Benjamin Franklin

I'm not scared to sing songs. I'm not scared to walk out the front door and make a mistake.

— Mandy Harvey

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

— Katherine Mansfield

“Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.”

— Tim Fargo

“And all these mistakes shaped her heart like a wildflower.”

— Laura Chouette

We all make mistakes. But I'm lucky. Being from Illinois and from the Midwest, we believe in pretty basic fairness. Once you've…

— Dick Durbin

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

— Dar Williams

The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly…

— William L. McKnight

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's…

— Sarah Dessen

“You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake, ridden in dark-eyed and morose but calm as a house after the…

— Dorianne Laux

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

— Jim Nussle

The reason why most people don't succeed in their lives is that they consider the ladder of success as an escalator.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Confidently perceiving God’s voice clearly doesn’t happen overnight or by mistake. It requires effort and intentionality.”

— Touré Roberts

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a…

— Maya Angelou

It's really helpful when you do something you don't like. You won't make that mistake again. It's like dating a bunch of…

— Rooney Mara

The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a…

— Warren G. Bennis

“If your goal is to never make a mistake in your life, you shouldn’t look for secrets. The prospect of being lonely…

— Peter Thiel

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and…

— Timothy Keller

A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with…

— Deborah Turbeville

“We often search for the gold in our life but we fail to understand that all glisters are not gold, When we…

— Debolina Bhawal

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too,…

— Marcus Aurelius

I couldn't stand the thought of not succeeding; failure was more than I could deal with.

— Everett McGill

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn't say musically, though.

— Nayvadius Cash

Wrestling promotions are kind of like new religions - nine out of 10 fail in the first year.

— John Morrison

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

— Eckhart Tolle

I think we see in cricket, often it's surrounded with failure and how you deal with it.

— Kane Williamson

Successful people keep moving on, they make mistakes but they never quit.

— Anonymous

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

— Chris Murray

We need to defeat not just antisemites but antisemitism.

— Clive Lewis

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

— John Larroquette

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

— Peter Singer

Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges

— Paulo Coelho

Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.

— Travis Kalanick

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

— Beverley Nichols

“A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.”

— Kim Panti

“Realize that failure isn’t a reason to judge yourself.”

— Leo Babauta

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

— Paul Dickson